In May 2000, he later had surgery to repair a leaking heart valve, and was forced to take a three month break from Parliament, with Deputy First Minister, Jim Wallace taking over as Acting First Minister.

Similarly, Lavrenty Beria, the First Deputy Prime Minister of the USSR, pursued German reunification, but an internal ( Party ) coup d ’ étât deposed him from government in mid-1953, before he could act on the matter.

A Foreign Ministry delegation from Greece visited Dushanbe for talks, and had meetings with Tajikistans Foreign Minister Zarifi and First Deputy Foreign Minister Youldashev in 2008.

Beria was promoted to First Deputy Premier, where he carried out a brief campaign of liberalization.

Before Stalin's death, Beria was appointed First Deputy Premier and reappointed head of the MVD, which he merged with the MGB.

Furthermore, the Supreme Commander of the Unified Armed Forces of the Warsaw Treaty Organization was also a First Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR, and the head of the Warsaw Treaty Combined Staff also was a First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR.

In more recent times, the University boasts one of Europe's largest collections of life scientists, as well as having been the training ground of numerous politicians, including former First Minister Donald Dewar, fomer leader of the Liberal Democrats and current Rector of the University Charles Kennedy, Liam Fox, John Smith, Sir Menzies Campbell and current Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

Though most of Provence, with the exception of Marseille, Aix and Avignon, was rural, conservative and largely royalist, it did produce some memorable figures in the French Revolution ; Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau from Aix, who tried to moderate the Revolution, and turn France into a constitutional monarchy like England ; the Marquis de Sade from Lacoste in the Luberon, who was a Deputy from the far left in the National Assembly ; Charles Barbaroux from Marseille, who sent a battalion of volunteers to Paris to fight in the French Revolutionary Army ; and Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès ( 1748 – 1836 ), an abbé, essayist and political leader, who was one of the chief theorists of the French Revolution, French Consulate, and First French Empire, and who, in 1799, was the instigator of the coup d ' état of 18 Brumaire, which brought Napoleon to power.

* Jim Wallace, Former Deputy First Minister of Scotland

Declarations from KGB General Nikolai Leonov, former Deputy Chief of the First Chief Directorate of the KGB, confirmed that the Soviet Union supported Allende's government economically, politically and militarily.

Ieuan Wyn Jones was subsequently confirmed as Deputy First Minister of Wales and Minister for the Economy and Transport.

Social Democratic and Labour Party Member of Parliament ( MP ) and critic of the force Seamus Mallon, who later served as Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, stated that the RUC was " 97 % Protestant and 100 % unionist ".

The National Council conferred presidential powers upon its new speaker, Heydar Aliyev, former First Secretary of the Azerbaijani Communist Party ( 1969 – 81 ) and later a member of the Soviet Union's Politburo, the KGB, and USSR Deputy Prime Minister ( until 1987 ).

Molotov served for several years as First Deputy Premier in Joseph Stalin's cabinet.

" In 1949, Molotov was replaced as Foreign Minister by Andrey Vyshinsky, although retaining his position as First Deputy Premier and membership of the Politburo.

* Rab Butler: Deputy Prime Minister and First Secretary of State

The Board of Selectmen elected Sheehy First Selectman by a 3 to 2 vote, along party lines, to replace Amey Marella ( Republican ), who stepped down to accept a job as Deputy Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection.

In response to a backlash against the Treaty, politician Winston Peters, the 13th Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand ( and founder of the New Zealand First Party ), and others have campaigned to remove vague references to the Treaty from New Zealand law, although the New Zealand Māori Council case of 1990 indicated that even if this does happen, the Treaty may still be legally relevant.

Northern Irish Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness and Northern Agriculture Minister Michelle Gildernew gave her breakfast and walked around with her during the day.

In September 2006, The City University of New York received a $ 30, 000, 000 gift from philanthropist and City College alumnus, William E. Macaulay, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of First Reserve Corporation.

Later in the war he succeeded Jellicoe as Commander in Chief of the Grand Fleet, in which capacity he received the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet at the end of hostilities, and then in the 1920s he served a lengthy term as First Sea Lord ( head of the Royal Navy ).

Mountbatten served his final posting at the Admiralty as First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff from April 1955 to July 1959, the position which his father had held some forty years prior.

The First Lady has her own staff that includes a chief of staff, press secretary, White House Social Secretary, Chief Floral Designer, etc.

: Chancellor of the King of Egypt, Doctor, First in line after the King of Upper Egypt, Administrator of the Great Palace, Hereditary nobleman, High Priest of Heliopolis, Builder, Chief Carpenter, Chief Sculptor, and Maker of Vases in Chief.

* Peter Campbell Scarlett, A Memoir Of The Right Honorable James, First Lord Abinger, Chief Baron Of Her Majesty's Court Of Exchequer, 1877

In 1961, Anatoliy Golitsyn, a major in the First Chief Directorate of the KGB, defected to the United States from his diplomatic post in Helsinki.

Frank Schwable, Chief of Staff of the First Marine Air Wing was shot down in North Korea.

The White House Chief of Staff, Donald Regan, grew frustrated with this regimen, which created friction between him and the First Lady.

* Gender, Halakhaha and Women's Suffrage: Responsa of the First Three Chief Rabbis on the Public Role of Women in the Jewish State, Ellenson, David Harry.

Chief Justice Morrison Waite, who consulted the historian George Bancroft, also discussed at some length the Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments by James Madison, who drafted the First Amendment ; Madison used the metaphor of a " great barrier.

Aimed at maintaining the historical integrity of the White House, the congressionally authorized committee works with the First Family — usually represented by the First Lady, the White House Curator, and Chief Usher — to implement the family's proposed plans for altering the house.

In 1921, after the First World War, President Warren G. Harding appointed Taft Chief Justice of the United States.

Chief Justice Fred Vinson's opinion stated that the First Amendment does not require that the government must wait " until the putsch is about to be executed, the plans have been laid and the signal is awaited " before it interrupts seditious plots.

Indeed, Chief Justice William Rehnquist repeatedly criticized the Court's invention of corporate constitutional " rights ," most famously in his dissenting opinion in the 1978 case First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti.

At the time, his son, Admiral Sir Caspar John was First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff.

The three presiding officers of a Royal Arch Chapter are called the Excellent King, High Priest and Chief Scribe, ( not First, Second and Third Principal ).

William Joseph Slim, First Viscount Slim, former Governor General of Australia, was the principal British commander in the field during the Burma War.

After the Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run and the retirement of the aged Winfield Scott in late 1861, Lincoln appointed Major General George B. McClellan general-in-chief of all the Union armies.

( 2001 ) Ordered to Die A History of the Ottoman Army in the First World War: Forward by General Hüseyiln Kivrikoglu No. 201 Contributions in Military Studies.

After the dissolution of Spanish authority, the former Captaincy General remained intact as part of the short-lived First Mexican Empire.

In 1952 the title of General Secretary became First Secretary and the Politburo became the Presidium before reverting to their former names under Leonid Brezhnev in 1966.

* 1800 – War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Hohenlinden, French General Moreau defeats the Austrian Archduke John near Munich decisively, coupled with First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte's victory at Marengo effectively forcing the Austrians to sign an armistice and ending the war.

During the First World War, he and his wife performed many services for the public of Leicestershire, including opening up their home first as a VAD Hospital under the 5th Northern General Hospital, and later as a hospital for Naval Personnel.

* Vendemiati, Aldo, In the First Person, An Outline of General Ethics, Rome, Urbaniana University Press, 2004.

The concept of the Four Freedoms became part of the personal mission undertaken by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt regarding her inspiration behind the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, General Assembly Resolution 217A.

The First Battle of El Alamein ( 1 – 27 July 1942 ) was a battle of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War, fought between Axis forces ( Germany and Italy ) of the Panzer Army Africa ( Panzerarmee Afrika ) commanded by Field Marshal ( Generalfeldmarschall ) Erwin Rommel, and Allied ( specifically, British Imperial ) forces ( Britain, British India, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand ) of the British Eighth Army commanded by General Claude Auchinleck.

Unable to fight on the front lines, he began working as an orderly in the Voluntary Aid Detachment ( VAD ) in the First Western General Hospital, Fazakerley, located on the outskirts of Liverpool.

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In 1864 Marx became involved in the International Workingmen's Association ( also known as First International )., to whose General Council he was elected at its inception in 1864.

The aid was not capable of saving the First East Turkestan Republic, as the Afghan, Uighur and Kirghiz forces were defeated in 1934 by the Chinese Muslim 36th Division ( National Revolutionary Army ) led by General Ma Zhancang at the Battle of Kashgar and Battle of Yarkand.

In 1988, she became the first First Lady invited to address the United Nations General Assembly, where she spoke on international drug interdiction and trafficking laws.

This surrender was accepted by the brigadier J. R. Stevenson, who represented Lieutenant General Sturdee, the commander of the First Australian Army, on board the warship HMAS Diamantina Arrangements were made to repatriate from Chuuk the 737 Nauruans who survived Japanese captivity there.

In 1952 the title of General Secretary became First Secretary and the Politburo became the Presidium before reverting to their former names under Leonid Brezhnev in 1966.

Headed by the General Secretary or First Secretary.

The First Council of Lyon of 1245 had the fewest participants of any General Council before it.

1639-He is senior ensign in General Goring ’ s regiment-in the First Scottish Expedition.

The Secretariat is divided into two sections, the Section for General Affairs and the Section for Relations with States, known as the First Section and Second Section, respectively.

The First Minister, the Ministers ( but not junior ministers ), the Lord Advocate and Solicitor General are the Members of the ' Scottish Executive ', as set out in the Scotland Act 1998.

Twice, in 1933 and 1944, the Uyghurs successfully regained their independence ( backed by the Soviet Communist leader Joseph Stalin ): the First East Turkestan Republic was a short-lived attempt at independence of land around Kashghar, and it was destroyed by Chinese Muslim army under General Ma Zhancang and Ma Fuyuan at the Battle of Kashgar ( 1934 ).